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Vendor Landscape: Enterprise BI

Before you can make the right data-driven decisions, you need to select the right BI vendor.

Last Revised: August 27, 2012

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Your Challenge

  • Organizations must decide which Business Intelligence (BI) offering will best facilitate the insight-driven decisions that will drive measurable improvements to performance.
  • Be certain to choose the enterprise BI vendor that has a strong focus on the functionality your organization is looking to adopt and manage. 

Our Advice

Critical Insight
  • Microsoft’s ubiquity in enterprises of all sizes, combined with a solid product line-up, make it a compelling choice to fill the BI void in an enterprise organization.
  • Many other vendors in the space deliver exceptionally well in basic areas like data visualization and data management, while others focus on low friction integration and architecture. Carefully assess the value of each aspect of a solution and don’t be lured into choosing the wrong solution by extra features.
  • Self-serve is not a significant differentiator any longer.
  • Where basic features do not offer enough distinction amongst solution candidates, look to advanced features that are critical to your specific use case, such as collaboration or social analytics.
Impact and Result
  • Understand what’s new in Enterprise BI offerings.
  • Evaluate differentiators between major vendors.
  • Determine which vendors offer the most appropriate solutions for your organization’s particular needs.

Get to Action

  1. Evaluate enterprise BI vendors and available solutions

    Understand the BI market, the players, and their products.

  2. Identify the solutions that best fit the organization's needs

    Develop a customized shortlist to speed solution selection.

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Microsoft, BI, business intelligence, Oracle, reporting, analytics, Microstrategy, self-serve, in-memory, Information Builders, SAS, data analysis, QlikView, IBM Cognos, SAP Business Objects, excel, SAP, SQL, QlikTech, WebFOCUS

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